The Wheat Ridge Police Department and the Jefferson County R-1 School District have worked together for several years and participated in the School Resource Officer Program. The primary mission of the School Resource Officer Program is to provide formal instruction, informal consultation and mediation, enforcement, and problem solving for the school communities. A formal, written, intergovernmental agreement between the City and the District concerning School Resource Officers has been in place for over ten (10) years. The District has requested the intergovernmental agreement be reviewed and re-accomplished. As part of the Police Department’s commitment to national accreditation, an intergovernmental agreement between the District and the City is required by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The attached intergovernmental agreement is similar to formal written agreements established between other national accredited police departments and public-school districts.